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Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood
By Jamie Russell
In 2010, cinema attendance nosedived. Meanwhile, a single game was making a billion dollars – in just 42 days. Call of Duty: Black Ops was the fastest-selling entertainment property in any medium, ever…
Within six weeks, players had logged more than 600 million hours blasting pixels and their pals in online combat. The prime movie-going demographic of 18-24 year old men were thinking: why watch a movie, when you can live inside one?
Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood uncovers the love-hate relationship between gaming and Hollywood – and asks what it means for the future of entertainment. It’s a wild, creative story that begins with Steven Spielberg choking on dope fumes in the offices of Atari in the 80s, before hurtling through a story of disaster, triumph and Angelina Jolie in hotpants.
Based on over 100 interviews with leaders in both camps – from Nolan Bushnell to Gabe Newell, Paul W.S. Anderson to Neill Blomkamp – Generation Xbox is the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls of videogames.
Out 16th April 2012
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Replay: The History of Video Games
By Tristan Donovan (Foreword by Richard Garriott)
A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay: The History of Video Games is the ultimate history of video games.
From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming’s past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry spawned by the computers of Sir Clive Sinclair, Japan’s rapid ascent to the top of the gaming tree and the seismic impact of Doom.
Replay tells the sensational story of how the creative vision of game designers across the globe gave rise to one of the world’s most popular and dynamic art forms.
Based on extensive research and more than 140 interviews, Replay includes insights from video game legends such as Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Will Wright, John Romero and Hironobu Sakaguchi.
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